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Title: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Margarita on May 11, 2019, 17:54:56 PM
If I had a fabric store near me like this, I would camp out. If you look at them on Google Maps you can see their wall of buttons! I want that. Does anybody have a store like that nearby?

Stoffland Graz (https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x476e4acf4bdbfd6b%3A0xd755396fcbf0c0ab!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.stoffland.at%2Ffiliale-graz%2F!5sStoffland%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPUmoju41NawH2Zlt43j8to2oG1l-Z8xzOntQZI&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi196HT9ZPiAhUSMH0KHddvBE0QoiowEXoECA0QBg)

Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Lowena on May 11, 2019, 17:57:21 PM
I don't actually like the way the fabrics are displayed
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Helen M on May 11, 2019, 18:03:54 PM
Oh the name Graz drew me in! I spent a month there on an exchange just before I left school and it's a place I'd love to revisit, even more so knowing that there is a fabric store!
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Margarita on May 11, 2019, 18:04:25 PM
Lowena, Which ones? The ones on rolls?
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Margarita on May 11, 2019, 18:09:53 PM
Oh the name Graz drew me in! I spent a month there on an exchange just before I left school and it's a place I'd love to revisit, even more so knowing that there is a fabric store!

Do you know if this is a chain store operation or just one store? Oh my, all those buttons and such a variety of colors in their zippers.
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: snoozi soozi on May 11, 2019, 19:29:23 PM
Just as well it's many many miles away  :P

Although that never stops me I shop online as there's nowt near me anyway  :S
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Helen M on May 11, 2019, 20:12:50 PM
Do you know if this is a chain store operation or just one store? Oh my, all those buttons and such a variety of colors in their zippers.

I Googled it out of curiosity, it's on the southern side of the city, and there seem to be a couple of other branches. I didn't know the other towns though.
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: BrendaP on May 11, 2019, 20:18:59 PM
I'm in need of some buttons :button: :button: :button: :button: :button:
Five, maybe six, largish ones that match but are all different colours, for the silk Zambeesi jacket.  All I can get locally are cheap nasty things sold for guluiing onto cards.
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Lollipop on May 11, 2019, 20:25:31 PM
I googled Graz as I have never heard of it I am ashamed to say!!

@snoozi soozi I know what you mean about Scunthorpe area. I use Waltons in Goldthorpe (40 mins drive) for fabric but habby isn't that good. Jayleurs in Brigg better for habby, but I miss the Fabric Store at Skippingdales! Thank goodness for t'interweb!!
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: SewRuthieSews on May 12, 2019, 08:23:28 AM
I did a school exchange to Austria also, but mine was to Güssing. There was definitely a strong sewing and knitting culture there in the 1980s (more than in the UK at the time).
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Efemera on May 12, 2019, 09:06:03 AM
I'm in need of some buttons :button: :button: :button: :button: :button:
Five, maybe six, largish ones that match but are all different colours, for the silk Zambeesi jacket.  All I can get locally are cheap nasty things sold for guluiing onto cards.

What size and colour @BrendaP?
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: BrendaP on May 12, 2019, 09:49:45 AM
Bright red, fuschia pink, phthalo green, purple, lilac and black;  about 30mm.   :devil:

I did order some from Totally Buttons yesterday evening.  We'll see.

Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: snoozi soozi on May 12, 2019, 10:15:27 AM
@Lollipop it's sometimes worth looking in Boyes in Brigg too, they have quite a bit of habby, basic fabrics but quite a lot of curtaining stuff. They're cheap, especially calico and polycottons, cheaper than Jaylaurs, although I love Jaylaurs, I don't see the point in spending more for t'same stuff  ;)
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Efemera on May 12, 2019, 13:42:18 PM
Bright red, fuschia pink, phthalo green, purple, lilac and black;  about 30mm.   :devil:

I did order some from Totally Buttons yesterday evening.  We'll see.

I’ve got stacks of odd nice ones...I’ll post a picture when I get home on Tuesday
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Sakar on May 13, 2019, 12:23:00 PM
If I had a fabric store near me like this, I would camp out. If you look at them on Google Maps you can see their wall of buttons! I want that. Does anybody have a store like that nearby?

Stoffland Graz (https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x476e4acf4bdbfd6b%3A0xd755396fcbf0c0ab!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.stoffland.at%2Ffiliale-graz%2F!5sStoffland%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPUmoju41NawH2Zlt43j8to2oG1l-Z8xzOntQZI&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi196HT9ZPiAhUSMH0KHddvBE0QoiowEXoECA0QBg)

Hi Magarita,

is it unfair to tell you that this shop is just 30min away from my town? :P

Stoffland is quite a big shop, but I hardly visit them. It's a general fabric shop, but they have no Patchwork fabrics. There are of course some cotton fabrics, but I am not sure about the quality.
They offer a very wide range of fabrics, cotton, denim, canvas, costumes, everything for furniture and garden and bags, and much more... but it's always like a bet, how the quality is. -<

Yes, they have a huge choice and low prices,... but quality is not guaranteed ;)
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Margarita on May 13, 2019, 21:15:00 PM

is it unfair to tell you that this shop is just 30min away from my town? :P

...

Completely unfair, but I'm happy to hear it actually exists and somebody has access to it. I would go for the buttons alone! LOL

Sometimes the hunt for the quality fabric is fun.  :D

Thanks for posting about it.
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Tamnymore on May 13, 2019, 21:45:21 PM
II usually try to work in a bit of fabric shopping when on holiday  I've not been to Graz but I have fabric shopped in Vienna- which was quite expensive.
Last summer I had a load of fabric shopping lined up in Berlin but it just got so hot I abandoned most of the shopping.
This summer we are thinking of the Outer Hebrides where I'm.hoping nit to be too hot.... I can hear the Harris tweed calling....
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: Efemera on May 15, 2019, 09:32:04 AM
Are these of any use @BrendaP
Title: Re: Stoffland - If I only had access to this store
Post by: BrendaP on May 15, 2019, 10:17:30 AM
Thank you @Efemera for that kind offer, but these have now arrived and the colours are good for the jacket.

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Only problem is they need a bigger buttonhole than the Singer buttonholer will make in one pass, so I now have to decide between:
  using the buttonholer and shunting the fabric along and then back to make a longer buttonhole   >:)
  using the 4-step buttonhole on the Husqvarna, which nearly always ends up with non-parallel sides ><
  hand sewing the buttonholes  :thread:
  making bound or piped buttonholes  :S

At the moment I'm leaning towards the bound variety, but ...